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Leading Orangutan Organizations Unite to Fight the Extinction of the Orangutan 5 Jun 2013 | 05:44 am
4 June 2013 - Joint Media Release- Perth, Australia; Santa Monica, CA; London, UK - The battle to save the closest relative to man is reaching crisis point. The orangutan species faces extinction due...
Government to revoke concessions in customary forests 2 Jun 2013 | 03:57 am
29 May 2013 - The Jakarta Post. The government has said it will revoke business permits it has given to companies operating in customary forests after the Constitutional Court annulled its ownership o...
In landmark ruling, Indonesia's indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest 22 May 2013 | 12:34 am
17 May 2013 - Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com - In a landmark ruling, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalidated the Indonesian government's claim to millions of hectares of forest land, potentia...
Orangutan Lecture Series Planned for June 2013 1 May 2013 | 11:06 am
1 May 2013 - Santa Monica, CA. Orangutan experts Leif Cocks and Gary Shapiro will be giving a series of illustrated lectures together in cities around the United States during mid-June 2013. Both men...
Banda Aceh hosts 2013 Orangutan Caring Scholarship Awards 6 Apr 2013 | 04:49 am
25 March 2013- Banda Aceh, Sumatra- Orang Utan Republik Foundation. Six students from the city of Medan, North Sumatra, travelled overnight by bus to the city of Banda Aceh and joined six local stud...
Aceh plans to clear 1.2 million hectares of protected forest trigger alarm over increase in landslides, floods and other natural disasters 14 Mar 2013 | 10:09 pm
13 March 2013 - Jakarta - endoftheicons. An alarming admission from the chairman of the Aceh Government’s Spatial Planning Committee is fuelling serious concern over the potential illegal loss of 1....
American Consumers to Fight Global Warming with Their Wallets 6 Mar 2013 | 04:32 am
22 February, 2013 - Seattle, WA -- (SBWIRE) – A new group calling itself Consumer’s Action for Sustainable Palm Oil is urging Americans to fight global warming and wildlife extinction by supporting th...
SOCP confiscates another illegal pet orangutan captured on palm oil estate in the Tripa Peat Swamp forests, Aceh. 21 Feb 2013 | 01:12 pm
20 February 2013 -Banda Aceh, Sumatra. A team from the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP: comprising PanEco Foundation (Switzerland), Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Aceh,...
San Diego Charter High School Partners with OURF to Inspire Students to Save Wild Orangutans 1 Feb 2013 | 05:12 am
2013 January 30- Santa Monica, CA. The non-profit organization, Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF), announced today a partnership with the King Chavez Community High School (KCCHS) yesterday to fur...
Is Starbucks Unintentionally Killing Orangutans? 24 Jan 2013 | 07:44 am
23 January 2013 - Santa Monica, CA - Starbucks, perhaps the world’s best known and the largest coffeehouse company, sells more than just a good cup of brew. Starbucks also sells the image of a model ...
